Transport in Porous Media

ENGR

G7800

Transport in Porous Media

Fundamental principles and applications of fluid flow, heat, and mass transport within porous materials. Application to groundwater flow in hydrology, enhanced oil recovery in petroleum engineering, filtration and separation processes in chemical engineering, and tissue scaffolding in biomedical engineering. Key topics include Darcy’s law, multiphase flow, capillarity, diffusion, dispersion, and reactive transport processes. Discussion of some popular modeling approaches such as pore network modeling, percolation theory, and upscaling techniques, as well as experimental techniques, such as core-flooding and column experiments, micromodels, micro-CT scanning, MRI, and pore-scale visualization (microscopy approach).

Graduate

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